Arthaey's Log

[arthaey]

I haven't done much studying in the past week, but my friend and I are still "texting" each other in Gregg most days. Here is today's:





Longhand: "Lots of fog over the Sound this morning."

[arthaey]

My friend couldn't make our weekly shorthand lunch today because his wife just had a baby, so I "complained" to him:



Longhand: "Jake thinks family is more important than shorthand lunch. WhatEVer!"

I'm especially proud of using "bold" to show syllable emphasis.

[Deb]

Aug 15, 2016 10:16:25 GMT -5 arthaey said:

I haven't done much studying in the past week, but my friend and I are still "texting" each other in Gregg most days. Here is today's:





Longhand: "Lots of fog over the Sound this morning."

Not bad. Just a note the 'o' should be something that looks like a longhand 'u' (that's how I remember it--then I have to remember the 'u' is upside down longhand 'u'). "Fog" will be one stroke pretty much, straight from the 'f' the 'o' and the 'g'.

I love the idea of sending "shorthand" texts.

[Deb]

Aug 15, 2016 15:13:59 GMT -5 arthaey said:

My friend couldn't make our weekly shorthand lunch today because his wife just had a baby, so I "complained" to him:



Longhand: "Jake thinks family is more important than shorthand lunch. WhatEVer!"

I'm especially proud of using "bold" to show syllable emphasis.

Funny.
Love the emphasis. I didn't think of bolding the outline. In Gregg, unlike some other shorthand methods, it doesn't matter if it's bold or not so that's a bad idea. You will see posts of it called "shading".

One note, several of these are brief forms that you will learn later, but writing them full is good because it makes you think of each sound and outline.

[arthaey]

Aug 15, 2016 16:03:36 GMT -5 Deb said:

Just a note the 'o' should be something that looks like a longhand 'u' (that's how I remember it--then I have to remember the 'u' is upside down longhand 'u').

I still regularly mix up O vs U. I'm sure I'll get it eventually… ><

Aug 15, 2016 16:03:36 GMT -5 Deb said:

"Fog" will be one stroke pretty much, straight from the 'f' the 'o' and the 'g'

Like this?

[Deb]

Aug 15, 2016 17:20:26 GMT -5 arthaey said:

Like this?

Perfect!
And yes you'll get the 'o' and 'u'.

[arthaey]

I'm noticing that my curved vs straight symbols need to be more distinct; several of my N vs K or R are confusing. Welp, practice practice practice!



Longhand: "I saw “The Perfect Dictator" last night. It was very cynical political satire and I liked it a lot."

[arthaey]

I've been busy doing things other than shorthand for the past little while, but I wanted to pop in to wish any fellow Americans here a good holiday:

[arthaey]

Hello, everyone doing the January challenge! I took a break from my previous studies, which didn't get very far anyway, so I'm just going to go along with the month schedule as is.

January 1: Anni Manual unit 1 & FM 1, 2

I transcribed the examples in the Anni Manual, then took the reading exercise as dictation with the help of my computer reading each sentence 3 times at 40 WPM. (Very slow, and yet very challenging !)

The reading exercise for FM was much longer, so I just read it. The back of the book says the passage was 502 "standard words", which took me 21 minutes to get through, so I currently read extremely simple material at a rate of ~24 WPM. Ouch.

[arthaey]

I was a little busy tonight, so I just did Anni unit 2: lesson plus reading & transcription.

Slow as molasses but having fun and learning, so it's all good at this stage.

[themudman]

Arthaey, I think it's clever how you timed yourself and counted the words so you could find the words per minute for writing and reading. I'm going to try doing the same in the future.

[IMo]

This spiral note book seems to be good for writing shorthand letters!
As for me, I have lots of used A4 size copy papers, and I'd like to use them.
There're no base lines. I feel a little uneasy.

[arthaey]

Jan 8, 2017 14:40:38 GMT -5 IMo said:

This spiral note book seems to be good for writing shorthand letters!
As for me, I have lots of used A4 size copy papers, and I'd like to use them.
There're no base lines. I feel a little uneasy.

These spiral notebooks are called ...*drumroll*… steno notebooks! They were designed specifically for stenography, so yes, it's great for shorthand practice.

But you can totally practice on unlined paper too. Just give yourself a lot of space and don't worry too much about wasted paper.

[arthaey]

Jan 23, 2017 7:20:07 GMT -5 IMo said:

I'm so lazy, I'm now only in unit 17.
But I love stenography.
Shorthand is very useful to remember stories.
I love to read stories, and it would be quite helpful for me to recite them.
Thank you for giving me such a wonderful chance to write words easily and fast.

I'm glad you're having a good time!

But this thread is my own personal log for progress and updates… Admin, could you please move this post to a separate thread? Thanks!

[Deb]

Jan 23, 2017 12:36:51 GMT -5 arthaey said:

But this thread is my own personal log for progress and updates… Admin, could you please move this post to a separate thread? Thanks!

I started that member their own log. I DM'd them and mentioned them on the post, so I hope they're okay with it. I think so.

Just if you're curious or they come back to this and find their posts missing, it's here: greggshorthand.proboards.com/thread/1442/imo-assignment-lesson-log